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03/13/2014
The historic Olema Druids Hall is up for sale. Once a meeting hall for the United Ancient Order of Druids, contractor Robert Cain’s family acquired the property in the late 1940s. With his wife, Victoria Swift, who moved to the area from Los Angeles, the couple raised their two children...

03/13/2014
Robert Ovetz, a history and politics professor at the College of Marin and a Woodacre resident, won a $48,500 settlement from the City of Oakland this week after filing a federal lawsuit alleging that police threw him to the ground and beat him during an Occupy protest in 2012. According...

03/13/2014
A state appeals court last week ruled that Marin County must undertake a new environmental review of its 2007 County Wide Plan on the grounds that it failed to both assess the cumulative impacts of potential development along streams in the San Geronimo Valley and outline mitigation measures for special...

03/13/2014
Ask John Wick if the grass is truly greener on his property. It is, he’ll tell you, smiling. It’s darker, denser and better at holding the soil’s moisture, too, he’ll add. It has to be. The greening grass on his Nicasio ranch has been the favorable outcome of a partnership...

03/13/2014
On the portion of Highway 1 that hugs Bolinas Lagoon, a few yellow hazard signs alert oncoming drivers: “FLOODING.” They are leftover from the last rainfall, but to the members of the Bolinas Lagoon Advisory Council, the diamond-shaped warnings may as well be portents sent from a future plagued by...

03/12/2014
Marin County is contending with a sizable gap in the number of people who qualify for food stamps but have not enrolled, with the fourth lowest percentage of sign-ups among the state’s 58 counties, according to a report by a hunger advocacy group. Eligibility for CalFresh, the state program that...

03/06/2014
February’s 21 inches of rain ended discussions between Marin Municipal Water District and state agencies over a temporary reduction of mandatory releases to Walker and Lagunitas Creeks. The dry fall and early winter had depleted reservoirs so dramatically that the district was planning on drawing from their two emergency reservoirs;...

03/06/2014
Governor Jerry Brown seems to enjoy breaking records. In 1975, he became the youngest person to lead the Golden State, and after three failed runs for the presidency and two terms as Oakland’s mayor, Mr. Brown returned to the job in 2011 as the oldest governor. With the start of...

03/06/2014
A drastic drop in the tule elk population in the Point Reyes National Seashore last year was likely the consequence of pitiful rainfalls in 2013, which depleted available forage and water, according to the National Park Service. Overall, the numbers dropped from 700 elk in 2012 to under 504 last...

03/06/2014
The supervisors’ chambers were filled with a throng of public employees last month—many of them firemen, appearing like a wall of flames in red union shirts—and citizens pushing for reform to the county’s retirement benefits. “I am a Marin public fireman, and I am definitely not from Sausalito. I can’t...